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This view that belief in the supernatural is universal has been completely confirmed by modern anthropology. Religion is as much a human universal as language or an incest taboo, which is to say a kinship system. Any conception of a 'natural man' who is not encumbered by such 'cultural baggage' belongs to a fictional picture of prehistory, for which there is no solid evidence for the human, socially organized stage.
— Sep 23, 2014 05:00PM
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The view that such 'baggage' ought to be dispensed with and that rational man should 'face reality' without any 'superstition' is a product of sophisticated culture, in no way true of the original human condition.
— Sep 23, 2014 05:02PM
